Forming the Ultimate Italy in By Blood Alone (yes, the Pope)

In this video guide, we use the secret Papal tree added to Italy and Make Italy the Papal States again. And so so much more!

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Intro Music: Wild Pogo

[sovietbrit]

Conquered nation: finish it, go on kill me you coward.

BitterSteel: *laughs* oh no death is too good for you, this is what I’m gonna do *proceeds to turn the conquered into an empty corpse on life support*

[thatoneemuguy]

The best part was when he said, “It’s Popeing time” and pope-ed all over Europe

[redoctober]

Fun fact: in Southern Ethiopa, the AI tends to move that one troop on the eastern flank away. Give it a few days and you can walk into 3-4 provinces for free, sometimes going right to the airfield. Really speeds up that war.

[Baller]

When Bitter Steel uploads, it's always a good day not just for me, but for all of us except when it's about Italy

[BubblesZest]

More and more Bitt3rSteel's Warhammer addiction grows, soon enough this will be a Warhammer channel.

[averagetrombone]

Can you do another collab with Hatless and Antasil but instead form the Czech entente on historical? You can use mods to spice things up and avoid touching the DoD focus trees if you choose to. I really enjoyed the Baltic Brothers video and I know plenty of others did aswell.

[danielfeinour]

Man, this video. The wars, the spies and collab governments, and the peace deals... filthy, absolutely filthy. I FREAKING LOVE IT. Bitter, my hat is off to you for your quality videos.

[StockGoat]

I have an idea for a video: playing as Italy in 1936, set Germany tò go Monarchist and set Hungary tò reform Austria-Hungary (Monarchist too), then you go Monarchist and form a faction with them called "Renewed Triple Alliance" and then go tò war with the Allies and the Soviets

[IamDrDapper]

Always a good day when Bittersteel uploads. Hope the family is doing well!

[foxycookieEX]

the end of the video killed me when i saw the 60 requests of puppets wanting to join the war😂😂

[Anders_Lund]

One thing that puzzles me about Rome with the Pope in HOI4, is why the flag isn't the Chi-Rho (XP) sign. It would make much more sense with the Pope in charge

[story_appreciator]

I think this strategy needs an update for 2024 because I've done it a few times and it's not been productive. For me at least

[traitorjoe]

re: 14:05 "We do not want the British involved"
To be filed under "when the mistake makes it better":
I messed this part up, the Brits had the chance to guarantee Austria.
Thanksfully I had gotten docking permission from the Germans on day one, so my fleet was in Germany, not stuck in the Mediterranean . Took France quickly as you do via paradropping, than with my navy in position invaded the UK. By this time all the others in the war had Allied up, so upon taking down the Brits I got Austria, Yugo, Romania, Czcgh-watever, and all the allies and their colonies/puppets.

One trick is I always upgrade my prewar subs filling that empty spot with a mine layer. While at war with Ethiopia I start mining the English Channel, so invading is a snap (work really well for the Germans).

[TheEventHorizon]

Would love an updated Germany guide given the BBA update broke alot of the things in the no step back guide

[TedPollever]

A strategy i personally use is to use the claims on yugoslavia from the foreign affairs branch (you'll need it for turkey and greece anyway) to get france paradropped, and instead of slogging through the balkans i go to war with the UK, which makes everyone join the allies (even turkey and greece, if you have time) and using the french navy i invade the uk. Doing this makes everything much faster and saves a lot of time and equipment :)

[riccardomarinaro]

I love your pronouncing of italian, i see you put effort in it which is very unlikely cos most of youtubers just say “this one” or “this focus” while you try to spell it out. So good job mate

[SgtLostSpartan]

Bitt3rSteel didn't had the Papal Knights at his service, but at least he managed to find some... "eager volunteers"

[penultimate_king]

One thing I've noticed is that when you decline giving Bessarabia to the Soviets it only gives them a wargoal against Romania, meaning if you aren't Romania it doesn't matter. I play Italy alot attempting to get this achievement and I thought it might be helpful to know that, also love the video 👍

[probower]

Hope you've been doing well with the kids! Thanks for the lovely content!

[grandadmiralthrawn]

Great guide ! I think I did even better than you by accident though. I followed every step very closely until the justification on Austria finished, and by lack of luck, they'd already been guaranteed by the UK as World Tension reached 25%. I figured, why not roll with it, and capped France before declaring on Austria. I then Sea-Lioned and since all the other countries I was at war with joined the Allies, I ended up having France, the UK, Yugoslavia, Romania, Austria and Czechoslovakia pupetted by the end of May 1937 !